Poorja
Biotech 🇮🇳
We strive to address open defecation, a serious issue that has affected the quality of food and overall health in India, by monetarily incentivizing citizens to use the toilet.
Understanding What's Going On
The Problem
A report published by WaterAid stated that India had the highest number of people without access to a toilet despite efforts made by the Government of India under the Swachh Bharat Mission. The main concern was brought up when the BJP party spent 110 million USD on bathrooms that nobody was using!
We understand that open defecation is an issue, but current solutions aren't solving the problem!
solving the problem
Our Solution
The Poorja green box is an innovative portable bathroom system that incentivizes people to use our bathroom. We made a system that pays people to use our toilets automatically through the scanning of an add bar card. How this works is the user would enter our Poorja Greenbox, partake in their toilet endeavours and get paid.
Our product also contains a compartment tray that is designed to separate urine from feces and detect objects other than feces from entering our compartment to be later on to create ammonium sulphate.
WHAT ARE THE BEST CURRENT APPROACHES?
The Status Quo
Approach: Converting feces to ash and urine to water.
The Problem: While the nano-membrane toilet does perform onsite sanitation (thereby eliminating any sewage management costs), they don’t produce any material that is economically viable which makes the solution dependent on external funding in order for it to be scaled.
Approach: Utilizing worms to feed off the feces to produce agricultural compost.
The Problem: The first problem we see is that relying on worms to generate agricultural waste depends heavily on the conditions that the worms are placed in. This makes utilizing them unsustainable. Additionally, agricultural compost has almost no economical value when produced from feces.
Current Progress & Help Needed
Currently we're in the process of raising funds to help us build out a prototype of our solution. We have dedicated countless hours to researching, and getting validation from those on the ground.
Click here to checkout a cost breakdown of our funding needs.
According to our current cost measures, the $2500 dollars we're looking to raise will cover the material costs associated with manufacturing our first physical prototype (this includes compartment tray, polyurethane plastic, paint, water pump, scaling, etc.)